Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris
30-03-2025 14:01 via theguardian.com

Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris

The anxiety and horror of these sweeping cuts are a matter of deliberate policy. How did the party of Bevan come to this?What has just happened, and where are we now? Three long weeks ago, the government began to announce all those cuts to disability and sickness benefits – aimed, they said, at saving £5bn by the end of this decade. Then, only hours before Rachel Reeves’s emergency financial “update”, the seemingly omnipotent Office for Budget Responsibility said th
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